Photo Gallery: Week’s Best Photos for Aug. 28 - Sept. 3, 2011

Grand Junction artist Pat Olson’s “Remember” sculpture on the corner of 7th and Main near Avalon.

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

Lily a Boarder Collie with the High Desert Sundogs Flyball Club from Albuquerque, New Mexico runs in the Westeside Woofer Flyball Tournament at the Mesa County Fairgrounds Saturday afternoon.

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

Photo by Dean Humphrey

A flock of double-crested cormorant perch on a log in the main lake at the Confluence Park in Delta. The birds can dive deep into water when they fish. They would fly just inches off of the water for hundreds of yards before landing in the water like a pontoon plane

Photo by Dean Humphrey

Colorado Mesa University students pass on the sidewalk near the fountain north of the University Center. The fountain was created due to the generosity of Anne and Steve Myer. It was reconfigured during the construction of the new center.

Photo by Gretel Daugherty

Indian paintbrush blooms in a meadow on Boulder Mountain in central Utah.

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

Photo by Dean Humphrey

Breastfeeding mom Jessica Coleman and her 13-month-old son Thayer at Lincoln Park

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

Central High School teacher Becky Beverly works with freshman student Aaryn Maes iduring class at CHS.

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

A car makes a splash on Maldonado Street, near West Gunnsion Ave after a short rain storm blew through the Grand Valley, Wednesday afternoon.

Mark Fisher from Delta makes a putt on the practice putting green at the Lincoln Park Golf Course. He was warming up for his round of golf in the 2 Person Scramble in the Western Slope Senior Game Tuesday afternoon. The game continue on Wednesday with the Golf Chip/Putt competition at Lincoln Park. There are a wide variety of events for competitors 50 and older.

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

A couple hug on top of a large rock along the Bear Creek Falls Trail in Telluride looking out across the valley onto the Mount Sneffels Wilderness area

Photo by William Woody

Montrose resident John Hutt holds his Old Timer pocketknife while sitting on the front porch of his home in Montrose Tuesday morning. Hutt on Aug. 19 became pinned on his logging truck and was forced to cut off his own toes to get to safety.

Photo by Christopher Tomlinson

Yesterday, Monday 8/29 was the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month, and today, Tuesday 8/30 is Eid al-Fitr, a day of feasting and celebration. It’s like a Muslim Christmas. Muslims at the Islamic Center of Grand Junction will be praying and feasting Tuesday.

Photo by Gretel Daugherty

Seven-year-old Ariana Inchauregui, left, and her sister Emma, 6, chase each other around a light pole outside of Saunders Fieldhouse at Colorado Mesa University recently.

Photo by Gretel Daugherty

Grand Junction Fire Department Capt. Joel Arellano adjust the spray on a hose from a fire engine during a training for engineer candidates Friday at Sherwood Park. The exercise was to give the candidates practice in balancing the pressure between two different hose lines and that of several different-sized hoses coupled together, and train them in using the engine’s 500 gallons of water during an initial response to a fire.